Posted on 11/24/2005 1:02:17 PM PST by blam
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I thought the earth was only 6,000 years old.
I thought the earth was only 6,000 years old.
Or where they went. "Humans" have not lived in CA for the past 200,000 years, and we all know this. Anatomically modern humans appeared in Africa about 125,000- 150,000 years ago. I find this story very hard to believe. It sounds like another Piltdown Man hoax. If this is true, EVERY theory of human evolution is out the window.
Obviously, YOU'RE WRONG.
It was intelligent lifeforms from another planet on a camping trip.
Frankly, this sounds like a more likely explanation.
There were many species of humans 3-4 different types living at the same time.
I expect these Calico people were Homo-Erectus.
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While still revolutonary, this makes more sense. I don't consider Homo Erectus as Homo Sapiens (Homo, yes, human, no), nor does anyone else in the field. Still, how did they get here, where did they go and why no remains?
In my youth I was aquainted with an old woman that was born and raised in Calico. When she was sixteen she cooked meals for 60 miners. This was during the days of Calico when they had a dog that carried the mail to the campsites.
The dog would show up with the mail in saddlebags, the miners would feed the dog, and it would go on to the next claim. She was the grandmother of somebody I knew.
It is not that human evolution is wrong.
It is that it is on a much longer scale than imagined.
And not in the way that it is imagined.
Oh. I guess it is unimaginably wrong.
Sorry, couldn't help it ;^)
My suspicions(and yours I think) are getting more and better confirmation as each year goes by. "People", in one species or another, and off and on(?), have been here for a long time.
FGS
wow! thank you
"If this is true, EVERY theory of human evolution is out the window."
That doesn't follow, not at all. The only consequence of this finding (which is only the first of many) is that the isolationist political nonsense that has been infecting the study of PreColumbian humans in the Americas just got a tooth knocked out and a cut over the eye.
Tools are found all over the world. Erectus (or someone) left tools on an island (and it has been an island for millions of years, even during the large-scale glaciations) 800,000 years ago.
another related topic (which doesn't show up in the FR search for "erectus"):
First Americans - Homo Erectus in America
http://home.pacbell.net/tcbpfb/ | January 01, 1999 | Tom Baldwin (apparently)
Posted on 09/24/2004 7:54:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1226526/posts
Maybe the people represented in the Calico Site died out for some reason??
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